One of the first pop albums to become a cult classic, Love's 1967
masterpiece, FOREVER CHANGES, is the pinnacle of the L.A. freak (the locals'
preferred term over "hippie") scene.Singer/songwriter Arthur Lee's
lyrics are increasingly fragmentary and paranoid, foreshadowing the band's
eventual drug-fueled collapse. Yet these drop-dead hip tunes are set in
arrangements featuring Herb Alpert-style mariachi horns, lush middle-of-the-road
strings, and other tropes of the easy listening scene, creating a more
unsettling sense of tension than if the songs were given the usual heavy rock
instrumentation. Every single track is a stone classic, although second
songwriter Bryan MacLean's contributions, the haunted "Old Man" and
especially the simply gorgeous opener "Alone Again Or", deserve
special consideration. FOREVER CHANGES belongs high on any halfway serious list
of the greatest pop albums of the '60s.

1. Alone Again Or
2. House Is Not A Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. Red Telephone
7. Maybe The People Would Be The Times
8. Live And Let Live
9. Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer In The Summer
11. You Set The Scene
12. Hummingbirds
13. Wonder People (I Do Wonder)
14. Alone Again Or
15. You Set The Scene
16. Your Mind And We Belong Together
17. Your Mind And We Belong Together
18. Laughing Stock